Is there a way to return a response every x seconds or so to a single http request?

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Published on 2011-06-24T08:30:07Z Indexed on 2011/06/24 8:31 UTC
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I'm wondering if it's possible to send a response every second or so to a single http request. Like for example the client makes an http request, then the server sends a space character every second. This could be never ending or with a limit, for example a minute.

I think the word 'response' is misleading in this context, since I don't necessarily mean an http response. The whole http response could be composed of the space characters, which would mean a single http response to a single http request, except that it is a minute long.

I tried chunked encoding but I don't think it works, or at least my implementation's wrong.

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